Patent GB-189730640-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Type Composing Apparatus.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1897-12-28
Granted: 1899-01-28
Abstract: 30,640. Imray, O., [Impresa Macchina Compositrice Lamonica Garlanda & Co.]. Dec. 28. Type, setting.-Fig. 5 shows a sectional side elevation of the apparatus, which is adapted to eject and set up syllables and words. There are four type cases W, one of which contains the capitals, figures, &c., and the other three contain similar sets of small characters, so arranged that the types forming syllables may be ejected in proper order on to the table U. The keys a are equal in number to the types in each type case W, and they are arranged in two groups, one for operation by each hand. The key levers a' are connected by rods a<4> to arms of rock shafts a<7> on which are arms which lift rods d' so that their upper ends come into position to be engaged by bars S<5> on frames S<4> pivoted at S<2>. There are four frames S', one for each type case, and also four rods d operated by each shaft a<7>. The frames S<4> of the three cases W containing the small characters are operated in succession by rollers m<1> on arms m attached to a tubular shaft L' on a shaft L. The rollers m<1> engage arms S<3> of the frames S<4>. An alarm is sounded at each operation of a frame S', so that the operator may release the keys, and depress them again for the next reservoir. Types may thus be set from the three reservoirs in succession. The frame S<4> of the case W containing capitals &c. is operated by any of three rollers set at equal distances apart on a disc attached to the tubular shaft L<1>. These rollers are normally out of position to operate the arm S<3>, and the tubular shaft L<1> is movable by a pedal Q to bring them into operative position and at the same time to move the rollers m<1> out of operative position. The raised rods d<1> when moved by the bar S<5> move slides 0 to the left, there being a slide 0 for every character in all the cases. The slides 0 are notched so that they are engaged and held by a plate p<2> until they are depressed by a pivoted frame q pivoted at q<1> and operated by cams l at each revolution of the shaft L. The projected slides 0 engage and depress pins N' in a slide N, and when this slide moves to the left the pins N<1> engage and operate pushers r which eject the types from the cases on to the table U under a guide P<1>. The slide N is operated by an arm and cam on the shaft L. The pins N<1> are raised to normal position by a vertically-reciprocating bar K. The ejected types are collected and brought to one side of the machine by a finger on a slide R, the finger being swung out of operative position during the return movement of the slide. The collected types are pushed past a retaining-pawl, and against a slide connected by a cord to a lever operated by a cam and spring. The lever may be also operated by hand to advance the types to form a line. Spaces are contained in a case from which they are ejected on to a pivoted plate at the mouth of the galley by a pusher operated by levers &c. and a cam on a shaft turned by a hand-wheel. The types are pushed on to this pivoted plate by a sliding pusher and when the spaces have been inserted as required, the pivoted plate is turned up to place the types on end in the mouth of the galley in which are catches for holding the line last placed therein.